Strong’s H8580 · Hebrew
תַּנְשֶׁמֶת
tanshemeth · tan-sheh'-meth
Origin from נָשַׁם (H5395);
Meaning properly, a hard breather, i.e. the name of two unclean creatures, a lizard and abird (both perhaps from changing color through their irascibility), probably the tree-toad and the water-hen
In the King James Version mole, swan.
In 3 verses of the King James Version
- Leviticus 11:18And the swan, and the pelican, and the gier eagle,
- Leviticus 11:30And the ferret, and the chameleon, and the lizard, and the snail, and the mole.
- Deuteronomy 14:16The little owl, and the great owl, and the swan,
From James Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890): its Greek dictionary in the edition of Ulrik Petersen, its Hebrew and Chaldee dictionary in that of David Troidl and David Instone-Brewer; the King James words numbered as in the edition the site sets the King James Version from. Public domain.